Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz; born August 13, 1926), commonly known as Fidel Castro, is a Cuban politician and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. Politically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist...
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth13 August 1926
CityBiran, Cuba
also means defying the powerful forces inside and outside our country.
You've put me on three times and I keep saying the same thing.
There was illiteracy, the workers were being expelled from the factories, and the best lands where in the hands of the rich. That's why the revolution triumphed.
There will be no escape for those who want to live like parasites at any price, at any cost, outside the law,
This mafia not only operates from Miami. It has set up an organization that operates from Mexico, using remote places for new routes.
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
The U.S. should begin the changes before there can be change in Cuba,
This graduation was just a dream nearly seven years ago, ... Today is proof of the capacity of human beings to reach the most lofty goals.
This battle against nature we will also win,
Sometimes I have the impression that our debates are unreal. It's as though the United States didn't exist, as though the empire and its hegemony didn't exist.
The much publicized dissidence or alleged opposition in Cuba does not exist except in the overheated imagination of the Cuban-American mob and White House and State Department bureaucrats.
They should put those signs inside, not outside.
I was asked by many citizens whether I was going to respond, ... We are all going to respond!
I repeat my warmest congratulations and the desire to continue strengthening the existing relations between our two parties, governments and peoples,